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'Ghana must go' in Ghana?

Osuofia had better watch before we start hearing 'osuofia must go'.

Beautiful family.

Make I throway kiss

The Boko gees make not be running with their tails between their legs now but their days are numbered.

The west should not rejoice yet.

Immense rubbish.

Ambition is getting the better of Mbaka. He had always wanted an audience with presidents. He didn't get it with the last dispensation and he turned against that govt. Now that he's got it he's willing to say and do anything to keep it, even speaking against his conscience.

He should watch it. God IS NOT mocked.

Kai! This thread still dey go? Such love and bile mixed up in a rather strange way.

Igbo have become so famous on this forum. Folks make it look like Igbo is the only tribe in Nigeria.

Abeg, we need to 'diversify'. Let's try and discuss other tribes for a change (if we must discuss tribes) and give the Igbos a break.

God bless you Innoson. More grease to your elbows. More success awaits you.

God bless the Igbos the world over. Our hustle go dey mature.

Chiwude:
That Akpabio link was a knock out punch to this shitty article wrtten by a kid born yesterday.
Let me end with this quote.
For me (Akpabio), I believe that because of certain policies of the federal government after the war, the war did not cease in the eastern region until about 30 years after the war.

The punch killed the thread.

willow0801:
Brother i dey tell you... Igbos are blessed, infact the whole eastern region brother. Just imagine, 20 pounds for every biafran!, chai this people are very wicked, Awolowo is very wicked, why cant they condemn him for what he did, The igbos will never do that, we have heart, we can never give the yorubas 20 pounds assuming they were defeated. Igbos today dont look like they were victims of the civil war, there is no trace of it in the eastern region even after the federal government abandoned us, We rose up and rebuilt our region, Nigerians knows this, no wonder they don't want us to leave, because nigeria will never be resilient as they were thought to be, it will just be some boring contraption.

True talk.

Bros, the truth be say there is a kind of grace bestowed on the Igbo by God. But Nigeria has refused to tap into it due to jealousy, envy and hate.

Until we tap into this grace, whether willingly or not, Nigeria will not be able to move an inch towards her greatness. We allow tribalism and undue competition hold us down. Okay. Nigeria is grinding to a halt. Maybe when it stops moving altogether we will be forced to have a rethink.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
GOVERNOR GODSWILL AKPABIO SPEAKS ON BIAFRA AND GOWON WITH THEWILL NEWS

THEWILL: You have been very vocal lately in dismissing and trashing the then federal military government’s post-civil war efforts at the 3 Rs: Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation. What don’t you agree with?


AKPABIO: As a young man, you definitely will not understand me. But I was a victim of the Civil War. I was one of those who suffered the pains of the war. I was born sometime in 1962; the civil war came really into our area in 1967. So, I was probably five or six years old during the war; and if I had been around nine years, I would probably have been conscripted.

I saw parents throw their children into pit toilets because they did not want their positions to be made known to the enemy. I saw devastation; I saw kwashiorkor; I saw hunger; I saw thousands of people and bodies littered everywhere and smelling while vultures had a field day every day. I saw houses destroyed; I saw families scattered such that till the end of the world, they can never gather themselves together again. There were children who were shipped away to Gabon, and they can never come back to Nigeria again because they were small. How would two-year-olds and three-year-olds ever know where they came from? They are now proud Gabonese and I don’t think Nigerians are even asking questions.

So, during the Silverbird Man of the Year Award, there were pictures that were shown of the Civil War. Somebody, sitting by me, who is from the West, was asking if those things were acted: the Kwashiorkor-ridden children with their swollen tummies, ugly shapes and bony structures because of hunger and starvation.

The then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon attempted to explain that he tried everything to avoid the scenes that were being shown on the screen, that he did not want the war. The other person who could have answered him, unfortunately, that is Emeka Ojukwu, is dead. He said he tried everything to stop the war from breaking out but it’s only Ojukwu who could have answered whether he equally did his part in avoiding the war.

But something struck me: it was said that Gowon should be commended for initiating the three Rs: reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction. And I asked a very simple question, that I came with a written text but I wasn’t going to read it. I thanked Silverbird for the award; and I said I did not want to criticise my leaders because I am also now a leader. But I asked to be allowed to ask a question: how come reconstruction started in the West when the war was actually fought in the East? They started the Third Mainland Bridge, the National Theatre, the international airport, and so on, in the West, while the war was fought in the eastern region. And if we really wanted to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account holder in the eastern region was given only £20? It did not matter whether your father had £10,000,000 or £50,000,000 before the war; you were given just £20. It was a take it or leave it situation. If your family survived and there was an account holder alive, he/she went to the bank, and collected just £20.

Could £20 pounds solve the Kwashiorkor that we were seeing? Could it reconstruct the houses that were burnt? Could it produce food? A lot of other things happened that I did not mention on that occasion. Don’t forget that it was shortly after the war in 1971 that the policy of indigenisation started, where most of the foreign industries and companies were sold to Nigerians, and the war-ravaged eastern regions, which include the entire South-South and the rest of them, could not buy, because no one who did not have money to even feed or clothe himself would have had money to buy any industry. So, I was just wondering, as a young man, if that was true reconciliation, because one would have thought that the government would have gone to any extent to give them more money so that they could truly rehabilitate themselves.

They needed money from reconstruction, and I would have thought that reconstruction would have also started from the East. I just asked because we were lucky to have the persona dramatis of the war right in front of us: General T. Y. Danjuma, General Yakubu Gowon, General Buhari and others. It is very rare to see three former heads of state in just one place, so I had to ask.

I said also that it is important, even for the current-day leaders, that we continue to take actions that will unite Nigeria. And we should purge ourselves of actions that tend to cause pains to Nigerians. For me (Akpabio), I believe that because of certain policies of the federal government after the war, the war did not cease in the eastern region until about 30 years after the war.

https://www.nairaland.com/1457961/gov-akpabio-akwa-ibom-state

Guy, u finish work for this post.

I wonder why the op hasn't deemed it fit to respond to your submission.

RickyTan:
Igbo man is an Igbo man.

Your type wants to balkanize and weaken Igbos and turn brother against brother.

Igbos are united in history, language, culture, attitude, looks etc.

Igbos are hardworking, republican in nature and believe in individual self.

Igbo man in Aba is same as Igbo man in PH and is same as Igbo man in Enugu Ezike by Kogi border.

Igbo man in Asaba is same as Igbo man in Onitsha.

Igbos are in SS/ SE.

SS is NOT a tribe for your information

True. Igbo is ONE.

Igbo bu ofu.

SonOfEl:
It was BIAFRA ZIONIST MOVEMENT BZM, that tried to take over the radio house of Enugu to agitate for Biafra during gejs tenure.

Uwazurikes interruption of the meeting of African countries led to his arrest and jail custody, this was during objs tenure...

There have been sensitization meetings in various units of the east as to realizing Biafra since 1999....

Dude, truth is golden.

Guy, u nailed it perfectly! I suspect you are a carpenter.

So on point.

Btw, must there be an Igbo-Biafra related topic on frontpage every day?

They asked him to apologize for his statements and to denounce Biafra in writing, he refused.

They now apologize on his behalf and put it on newspaper.

These people make me laugh in Greek.

I knew this thing would make front page.

Nairaland sef.

CountDracula:
Asdfasdfasdf??

Good question.

Olemi700:
My prayer is for Nigeria to divide coz for hundred years plus now there's nothing to show that we supposed to be together as one, our togetherness did not yield any fruit but always bring sorrowful, pain, dead, backward nd hatred. Britain created Nigeria for their own benefit not for the good of pples living there, I really believed that we will be better if separate, I support Biafra!!

Valid points.

janellemonae:
I believe this too. And i hope it does disintegrate. It wld have happened this year if boko haram didnt start stealing territories. The USA saw an opportunity to kill several birds wt one stone wt the crude oil crises. Now they're concerned abt boko harams islamic caliphate, they've decided to start buying nigerian oil again. Kachikwu announced dt today.

America can't seem to make up their mind as to how they want to relate to Nigeria. One day, they refuse selling weapons to us and discourage any other nation that wants to, the next day they say they are now open to selling to us, that we are their friends.

We ask them for ebola drug since they claimed they had it, they refuse, giving flimsy reasons. When we overcame ebola, they came smiling and saying that it was with their support that we achieved to feat.

Then this oil stuff?

America is giving a new meaning to the word "friendship".

irunoobo:
I rather die than stay alive to watch the IGBOS have Biafra. Biafra is dead and buried. Simple

.

U really mean this?

Damn!

All this argument back and forth as to why Biafra will not succeed is a waste of time.

Folks just giving instances where succession bids failed, deliberatley forgetting where they succeeded. That the Texans failed and continue failing in their bid to leave US does not mean Igbos can't leave Nigeria if they so wish. We are not Texans. We are IGBOS.

A simple referendum will put all this to rest. It is my sincere belief that majority of Igbos will want to leave Nigeria - if the opportunity ever comes.

Not that am pro-Biafran but we need to discuss without sentiments. The secession bid by pro-Biafra Igbos is a 50-50 situation. It could go either way. Its not like secession is impossible especially as some so-called powers want to divide Nigeria so desperately, for their own evil motives. Thats what their prediction of our dis-integration is all about. Biafra is beginning to get world attention. Its not by chance. It will get worse. If u don't want Nigeria divided, than pray to God, if u believe in Him. If u believe in positive thinking, then "positive-think" seriously. All this argument will solve nothing.
Truth is: Nigeria is being goaded to disintegration.

Op, what do u mean: "vow to embrace one Nigeria"?

Not that am pro-Biafran, but your one Nigeria is NOT etched in stone. You can't force people to remain in an union they are clearly tired of. What happened to the right to self determination? kanu's approach may not be the best in the world, but he has a right to seek self determination.

People make this one Nigeria thing sound like we can't go our separate ways. Even siamese twins get to be separated.

Mind you, the North was the first to shout "araba" - meaning "separation". It is my belief that if this oil in the south had been in the North, Nigeria would have ceased to exist long ago. This ur "one Nigeria" is exploitatory.

Until we embrace a system of govt where there will be strong regions with each managing their resources and contributing to a weak centre, Nigeria will continue to grope in the dark. Let each region develop at their pace.

We all know our problem as a nation, but some folks can't seem to let go of the oil loot from another man's region.

^^^
Imagine talk.

onyegwu:
Is like the yorubas are so madly in love with Igbo ladies these days. What happened to their own ladies ? Every thread u visit is the same story my brother married an Igbo lady, we have Igbo cousins , I am dating an Igbo lady etc . Like I said what of their own ladies?

You make sense. I tire no be small.

Cool. Linda enjoy your life. No be you do Nigeria.

Bitterleafsoup:
God bless you too My Dear! BTW Bitterleaf is more healthy

True word.

But egusi and I have had this thing going on between us since far back. No be today.

Kai, God bless you Bitterleaf soup for this thread, even though my best soup na Egusi.

Enlighten them, brother.

For those that want to die on this thread, pls don't. Its just an article the op copied and pasted.

Just let it slide. Its no big deal.

A proud Igbo son right here.

That na the way we roll.

Total rubbish.

And it made front page too!

Just super!

sorry for your loss though, @ op.

So sad.

At times i wonder if Nigeria actually wants to develop, or are we just mouthing off.

Every good idea is either ignored or surpressed.

Btw, has anyone succeeded in making sense out of "Chikieze"?

Sounds quite cheeky indeed.

All these 'WE THE IGBOS' crew sef.

Brilliant. More grease.

This one didn't quite go the way OP hoped it would.

Maybe another day.

Nigeria will surpass whatever China has achieved in many ways, though not under the incumbent. Buhari's primary role now is to fight corruption to a stand-still, without fear or favour. Not much headway will be made with corruption still seated on a throne in Nigeria. It has to be 'impeached'.

#IMPEACHCORRUPTION.

Light of the nation.